Jeff Cochran

Art Brokerage: Jeff Cochran American Artist: Jeff Cochran's impasto oil paintings depicting the New Mexico landscape are a mix of realism and romanticism. They depict a world where the perfect light meets the perfect view. Stemming from his work as an organic farmer, Jeff is well-tuned to notice every nuance and subtle change in the landscape. He works the land and alfalfa fields that surround his high desert property, which abundantly provides him with inspiration for his paintings. Cochran thinks of his farming as an extension of his art and as a form of large scale sculpture made of the Earth. He says, "The different colors of plants, soil and mulch contrasting with furrows and beds are like a three dimensional painting." eff Cochran began his art career at the age of twenty, while he was working as an illustrator for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. He began selling his paintings while still in college and quickly found gallery representation. He estimates that there are about two thousand of his paintings "out in the world". Much of Cochran's early success and renown came from his large paintings of chimpanzees. Listings wanted.